[Pkg-uml-commit] r112 - trunk/src/rootstrap

[Mattia Dongili]

Author: malattia
Date: 2006-05-28 15:58:58 +0000 (Sun, 28 May 2006)
New Revision: 112

Modified:
   trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap.sgml
Log:
a shorter and concise description of the CONFIG_HOSTFS=y requirement

Modified: trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap.sgml
===================================================================
--- trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap.sgml	2006-05-27 21:42:03 UTC (rev 111)
+++ trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap.sgml	2006-05-28 15:58:58 UTC (rev 112)
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@
       configuration tasks.
     </para>
 
+    <para>
+      Note: since roostrap needs access to the host filesystem it needs an UML
+      kernel with hostfs built-in (CONFIG_HOSTFS=y), not as module.
+    </para>
+
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
     <title>OPTIONS</title>
@@ -404,40 +409,6 @@
         rootstrap is run is available as $WORKDIR.  The environment is
         generated from the configuration file as described above.
       </para>
-	  
-      <para>
-	Since you launch rootstrap and you invoke <command>linux</command>
-	command, you need to use the $TARGET on the host filesystem.
-	This means that <command>linux</command> needs a shared filesystem to
-	work with and to create the final result, the filesystem image itself.
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
-	This is indeed the case of the /tmp/, /tmp/host, /tmp/target ($TARGET)
-	as well as /etc/rootstrap ($WORKDIR) in case you need to read the
-	system wide rootstrap.conf. These directories are needed by the
-	<command>builder</command> python script invoked by rootstrap
-	(init=/usr/lib/rootstrap/builder).
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
-	User Mode Linux kernel, <command>linux</command>, is allowed to share
-	the host filesystem, once is mounted as hostfs in its /etc/fstab, thus
-	the rootstrap idea of building a filesystem image is mainly based on
-	this feature. This means that you can share the host resources and
-	build filesystem on it, as well as to share host binaries to perform
-	whatever task you may need.
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
-	If you would like to have the hostfs support for you
-	<command>linux</command> or at least for the filesystem creation with
-	rootstrap, you need to configure the CONFIG_HOSTFS=y, then to compile
-	the UML guest kernel in order to include this feature. In particular it
-	is recommended to set it as included in the <command>linux</command>
-	file, not as module because it is required during the rootstrap launch,
-	and not included in the following modules copy on the guest filesystem.
-      </para>
     </refsect2>
 
   </refsect1>